Accellion has announced it is expanding beyond enterprise secure file transfer to enable enterprise secure collaboration.

With the introduction of Accellion Secure Collaboration and Accellion Mobile Apps, Accellion is providing business users with the ability to quickly and easily create secure workspaces for internal and external project teams to collaborate and share files.

Users can securely access workspaces and files from almost any device including desktops, laptops, mobile devices and smartphones.

“Accellion Secure Collaboration builds on our Enterprise Managed File Transfer solution and is architected specifically for secure enterprise deployments spanning virtual and public, private and hybrid cloud environments,” said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion.

“The solution combines all the best of our secure file transfer offering with easy-to-use secure collaboration functionality that improves business productivity while reducing the risk of enterprise data breaches.”

Corporations and government agencies are becoming increasingly aware of the need to protect the sharing of confidential information. At the same time, free, dropbox-type solutions traditionally geared towards consumers are being downloaded by employees for business use. Those applications make it extremely challenging for enterprise IT security teams to protect an organization from a data breach.

Accellion Secure Collaboration expands on Accellion Managed File Transfer with the introduction of the Accellion Secure Workspace, a new collaboration tool. Accellion Secure Workspaces allow people to search, review, set expiration dates, comment on files, track file versioning and subscribe to automated notifications of workspace activity.

Enterprise users can share project files, images, presentations, spreadsheets, financial documents, product specifications, and any file or folder up to 100Gb in size, quickly, easily and securely with both internal and external stakeholders.